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Princess Mononoke – Kate’s Take Podcast

Kate continues Miyazaki month with Princess Mononoke. This episode is full of trivia on why it took this box-office recording breaking Japanese hit 2 years to come to the United States as well as taking deep diving on the themes of this mature movie. Themes in this episode are:

Infections of rage and hate

The whole damn world is cursed

Two sides to every story

Being small, stupid and worrying about your survival is a precursor to war

Not to fear the god of life and death.

ABOUT

Each week filmmaker & author, Kate Chaplin dissects a movie that has inspires her life for good, bad or ugly and shows you the universal messages hidden within. Like on Facebook. Follow on Twitter. Subscribe on iTunes, YouTube, and Podbean.

Kate’s Take is brought to you by Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy.

UPCOMING SCHEDULE

Jan 19 – Castle in the Sky

Jan 26 – Howl’s Moving Castle

Feb 2 – Oscar Special

Feb 9 – X-men

Feb 16 – X-men United

Feb 23 – Trainspotting

HISTORY

Kate’s Take started on D20crit.com in October of 2014. Kate was a guest on D20crit’s show A Bit of Geek and Nerdery Episode #12 talking about the new film she was producing called Ezekiel’s Landing (link to episode). She became a returning guest and before long Wil asked if she had an idea for her own show. Kate’s Take is an adaption from a never-finished novel entitled “I Blame Lucas” where Kate recalls her life through the movies she had watched starting with Star Wars: A New Hope and ending with Return of the Sith. Wil Derringher co-hosted, edited and produced the show for D20crit. Together Kate and Wil produced 57 episodes and won 5 awards for the show from INDYpodnet.

In August of 2016 tragedy struck with the loss of Wil’s beloved wife, Tristan. Understandably Wil was unable to do the show. November 2016 the show was moved from D20crit to Gal’s Guide to the Galaxy and re-titled Kate Take: Reloaded.